And which game was that, if you don’t mind my asking?

This is officially the stupidest response I have ever gotten on a social platform.

I’m pretty sure you have no idea what a kernel does if you’re jumping to user space. It’s very far from meaningless.

The worst thing about American Gods is that they had plenty of episodes to complete the core storyline; but the studio dragged it out so poorly that we never received it.

Thankfully Gaiman has had some central creative control of his shows since.

Incidentally, Chuck Palahniuk has said the same.

I respect that as true, but every console other than XBox is either Linux or BSD based; at a certain point learning to work with alternative platforms is just good business practice.

You can embed scripts in many mainstream distributions of it, and it’s arguable that writing an SQL instruction is in itself writing a concise program for reviewing a database, so it seems logical to me.

Not unheard of. I used to be one.

It ain’t gonna work, in any universe; but hey, Epic do Epic.

New hardware failures tend to follow what’s known as a “bathtub curve” for failures over time-- in one hand, you have a steady climb on the far end because of wear and tear with age; but due to undetectable manufacture faults, there’s another steep rise at the beginning, too. There may be internal issues that simply no one has seen yet.

So getting a piece of hardware with an early defect is what’s casually called a “bathtub fault”. I know it’s irritating, but let’s not jump to conclusions yet. It might still be fine.

In the worst case scenario, you might also consider reseting the CMOS if you really can’t get it to boot-- could be a wonky BIOS setting and that would remove that.

Each mobo has its own thing for that, but you can also pop the battery, flip off the PSU switch, and hold power for thirty seconds to drain the caps, and that will force it back to its defaults. I mean you got it to run once, so it’s probably something stupid.

Good luck!

I had similar issues recently on my ideapad while slapping KUbuntu onto it. I doubt these are all specifically related to your issue, but some heads-ups won’t hurt.

Totally ignore anything on snap, it can break your entire system like it did mine. I had an issue with my package manager afterward that prevented me from updating dirty codes. Just use a flatpak or appimage, or install from a repo, and it will save you a world of hurt. (If Neon doesn’t support snap, then good on them. Never again.)

If you have trouble with the “open” Nvidia driver, it’s worth considering the proprietary right now; my desktop machine on Mint had a very similar issue to yours after an update, which I had to fix with Timeshift. Apparently that driver is sketchy as hell anyway, but I haven’t been following that drama very closely.

It’s good to hear that you’ve got it booting from USB again; I would strongly suggest installing all updates before anything else, other than graphics drivers. While you don’t usually need to reboot after an update on Linux, this is technically not true for kernel updates or modules; and by experience, it’s also not something you want to wait around on with graphics card updates, even if the system doesn’t say it explicitly.

So it should isolate your issue if you install the OS, install all updates other than graphics, reboot, install graphics card drivers, reboot, and then worry about software-- if there’s an issue, you’ll have it isolated.

I would check on that RAM, and your Mobo, though. It sounds like you might be the lucky winner of a bathtub fault on it, which any reasonable vendor should be able to refund or replace.

Don’t worry about these guys. They don’t mean any harm, they just aren’t treating this like a tech support question.

I also regret you asking

JavaScript is what’s called an “untyped” language, so here, it assumes that the numbers are words, and tries to sort them alphabetically. Specifically, it tries to sort them alphabetically as a dictionary would in a left-to-right language like English. In this case, just as “apple” would come before “asterisk”, 100000 would come before 21.

(Some would argue that it’s more of a “weakly typed” language, I know, but I’m trying not to be pedantic here.)

Sorting them as actual numbers would require some extra explicit instructions and guides. Most typed languages, like C, aren’t like this.

Man. ChatGPT is at an all time lo… wait, can an LLM get drunk?

Jeezis fuq… what was he drinking, gasoline and turpentine??

That’s what went through my head; but if it kept up with offshore drilling it could still happen in theory.

I didn’t know about this, but realistically that’s kind of like saying I just found out that Jim Morrison used to smoke a little weed. So don’t mind me.

I do hope he has some easy final days, in all seriousness.

MEEEEeeerhhhaaaauugghh… 🤢🤮🪣

Yes, she was a stripper. Don’t you judge.